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Soph0571

(9,685 posts)
Fri Sep 27, 2019, 10:22 AM Sep 2019

Did you hear the one about the serving soldier threatening to kill a female politician?

There is no punchline. This is a real thing in our country.

New Statesman is reporting that..

British Army corporal tweets Angela Rayner will “perish” in Brexit “civil war”

A corporal in the British Army issued a death threat to a Labour MP and appeared to incite “civil war” on Twitter on Wednesday afternoon.

The corporal, whose Twitter account has now been deleted, wrote to Rayner: “Ohh fuck off you stupid bitch” and said the MP would “perish when civil war comes and it’s coming”. The soldier ended the tweet by adding that “17.4 million people are gunning for blood if we don’t leave”.


[link:https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/brexit/2019/09/british-army-corporal-tweets-angela-rayner-will-perish-brexit-civil-war|]

I am more than certain about 10 people - most of them on the front bench - out of the 17.4 million would advocate a civil war but is this who we are now? This is an outrage. He should be in the glass house. He certainly should be nowhere near any weapons of any sort.


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Did you hear the one about the serving soldier threatening to kill a female politician? (Original Post) Soph0571 Sep 2019 OP
This is what remains of the empire on which the sun never sets? TreasonousBastard Sep 2019 #1
Yep a little lump of rock half filled with swivel eyed loons... Soph0571 Sep 2019 #2
If you got rid of all the facists in the British Army T_i_B Sep 2019 #3
You raise a valid point... Soph0571 Sep 2019 #4
Plenty. mwooldri Sep 2019 #5
When I say I used to live a stone's throw from the Parachute Regiment T_i_B Sep 2019 #6
Very very scary LeftishBrit Sep 2019 #7
Found on Twitter: Denzil_DC Sep 2019 #8
Heh Soph0571 Sep 2019 #9
He sounds like a charmer with history: Denzil_DC Sep 2019 #10
Army investigates soldier who sent death threat to Angela Rayner Eugene Sep 2019 #11
Good Soph0571 Sep 2019 #12

mwooldri

(10,291 posts)
5. Plenty.
Fri Sep 27, 2019, 10:56 AM
Sep 2019

Sorry the only people I know who served in the British Army are most certainly not fascist and many are Remain supporters. Plus a fascist Gurkah? My mind boggles over that one....

T_i_B

(14,734 posts)
6. When I say I used to live a stone's throw from the Parachute Regiment
Fri Sep 27, 2019, 12:26 PM
Sep 2019

I mean that I could have thrown a stone from my living room window and had it land in their barracks!

Some of the nicest people I've ever met have been in the armed forces. Some of the biggest arseholes I've ever met have also been in the armed forces. And a disproportionate number of vocal far right supporters I have come across have been former members of the armed forces.

A disproportionately large number of homeless people are also former members of the armed forces, which is deeply concerning.

Denzil_DC

(7,188 posts)
10. He sounds like a charmer with history:
Fri Sep 27, 2019, 09:14 PM
Sep 2019
DANIEL GOSHAWK, 32, of Vauxhall Barracks, Didcot, was convicted of two counts of assaulting a woman at Didcot on June 9 [2018]. He was made subject to a community order to include unpaid work for 100 hours and must pay a victim surcharge of £85 and court costs of £400.

https://dorseteye.com/tory-councillors-twitter-page-shut-down-following-this-tweet/

Eugene

(61,595 posts)
11. Army investigates soldier who sent death threat to Angela Rayner
Fri Sep 27, 2019, 09:20 PM
Sep 2019

Source: The Guardian

Army investigates soldier who sent death threat to Angela Rayner

Labour MP received tweet as MPs urged Boris Johnson to tone down his language

Kevin Rawlinson
Fri 27 Sep 2019 20.43 BST
Last modified on Fri 27 Sep 2019 21.35 BST

The army and police are investigating after a soldier sent a death threat to the shadow education secretary, Angela Rayner, defence officials have said.

The commander of the British field army, Lt Gen Ivan Jones, and the defence secretary, Ben Wallace, denounced the message, which was posted on Twitter on Wednesday, as MPs pleaded with the prime minister to tone down his Brexit rhetoric, saying they feared it would incite violence against them.

Posting an image of the message online on Thursday, Rayner said it was just an example of the “usual vile tweet I get daily”. It read that she will “perish when civil war comes”, suggesting that people who voted for Brexit would be “gunning for blood if we don’t leave”.

Jones apologised and confirmed his belief that the tweet was posted by a serving soldier.


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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/sep/27/army-investigates-soldier-who-sent-death-threat-to-angela-rayner
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